The show you’re about to hear is part of a series of shows recorded in San Francisco at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. My guest for this show is Paul Tepper, worldwide head of cognitive innovation and product manager for machine learning & AI at Nuance Communications.

Paul gave a talk at the conference on critical factors in building successful AI-powered conversational interfaces. We covered a bunch of topics, like voice UI design, behavioral biometrics and a ton of other interesting things that Nuance has in the works.

TWiML Online Meetup

The details for the upcoming TWiML Online Meetup have been set!! On Oct 18 at 3pm PT, We will discuss the paper Visual Attribute Transfer through Deep Image Analogy, by Jing Liao and others from Microsoft Research. The discussion will be led by Duncan Stothers. (Thanks Duncan!) For anyone who’s has missed the last two meetups, or for those that haven’t yet joined the group, please visit twimlai.com/meetup. There you’ll find Video Recaps of the last 2 meetups, along with a link to the paper we’ll be reviewing next month. If you’d like to present your favorite paper, we’d love to have you do it. Just shoot us an email at team@twimlai.com to get the ball rolling.

Thanks to our Sponsor

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